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Irish Asset Management & Investment Funds ESG newsletter: Quarter 3, 2025

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Welcome to the latest edition of our ESG newsletter. In this issue we identify a number of key highlights from European legislative and regulatory developments as well as updates from the wider sustainable finance...more

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SFDR Update: A Step Up in Scrutiny

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In recent weeks, EU regulators have issued several updates clearly indicating that, while the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) remains subject to review and likely substantial revision at the end of 2025,...more

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ESMA Proposes Significant Reforms to UCITS Eligible Assets Rules

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ESMA has recently recommended notable amendments to the UCITS Eligible Assets Directive, which sets the standards for permissible investments by UCITS funds across Europe. These reforms could redefine permissible investment...more

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ESMA advice on the review of the UCITS Eligible Assets Directive

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On 26 June 2025, ESMA published its keenly awaited technical advice to the Commission on the review of the UCITS Eligible Assets Directive 2007/16/EC (EAD). The report assesses EAD implementation across member states and...more

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ESMA Publishes Four Principles for Clear, Fair and Not Misleading Sustainability-Related Claims

On 1 July 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) published a thematic note on making clear, fair and not misleading sustainability-related claims, to address greenwashing risks (the “Thematic Note”)....more

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ESMA publishes technical advice on eligible assets for UCITS

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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final technical advice to the European Commission (EC) on the review of the UCITS Eligible Assets Directive (EAD) accompanied by a press release. The EAD...more

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FCA supports move towards faster settlement cycle for fund trades

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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a press release welcoming a joint statement from asset management trade associations supporting the transition to faster settlement of trades in funds. Effective from 11...more

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FCA Extends Investment Research Payment Optionality to Fund Managers

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Last month the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) set out its final rules related to the application of investment research payment optionality to fund managers. This move follows its consultation paper late last year which...more

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Horizon Scan for Private Investment Funds: Key Recent Funds, Legal, and Regulatory Developments to Look out for in the coming...

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In this horizon scan for private investment funds, which is aimed at managers based in Europe, we have set out the some of the principal legal and regulatory-focused developments to look out for in the coming months....more

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UK Government Targets Reform of the Investment Manager Exemption

On 28 April 2025, the UK government published draft legislative amendments to: - Align the UK’s domestic tax rules on permanent establishments (PE) with the 2017 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)...more

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SFDR enforcement: Danish regulator says “Managers need to be better at ensuring that their investments are truly sustainable”

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In a statement on 21 March 2024, the Danish Financial Supervisory Authority advised providers of sustainable investment products to ensure that their internal processes comply with sustainable investment requirements. It...more

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Final opportunity to shape SFDR’s future in European Commission’s Call for Evidence

On 2 May 2025, the European Commission launched its ‘Call for Evidence’ on the review of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). The European Commission aims to review the SFDR to simplify the framework,...more

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ESMA Releases Final Draft RTS and Guidelines on Liquidity Management

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ESMA Guidelines and Final Draft RTS on Liquidity Management Tools of UCITS and Open-Ended AIFs - Pursuant to the revised Directive 2011/61/EU (AIFMD) and Directive 2009/65/EC (UCITS Directive), the European Securities and...more

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EC launches targeted consultation on barriers to EU capital markets integration

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The European Commission (EC) has published its targeted consultation on the integration of EU capital markets under its savings and investments union (SIU) strategy, accompanied by a press release and updated webpage. The...more

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Irish Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Report: Asset Management and Investment Funds January - March 2025

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Welcome to the January - March 2025 issue of our Irish Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Developments report for asset management and investment funds. This report covers key dates and developments during the quarter, such...more

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Open End Credit Funds – ESMA Is Looking for Answers

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The ESMA Consultation Paper on draft regulatory technical standards on open-ended loan-originating AIFs (OE LO AIFs) under the AIFMD, published on the 12 December 2024, aims to set out the requirements which OE LO AIFs must...more

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Private Debt Explosion: Breaking New Ground

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In the last 12 months, we have seen private debt markets take off over other strategies. In particular, there are now more creative ways of bringing in new types of investors to this asset class, including insurers, pension...more

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ESMA CSA on fund manager compliance and internal audit functions launched

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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a press release confirming the launch of a Common Supervisory Action (CSA) with national competent authorities on compliance...more

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Irish Asset Management & Investment Funds ESG Newsletter: October 2024 – January 2025

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The Platform on Sustainable Finance has published its report on categorisation of products under SFDR ahead of the European Commission's proposal for review of the SFDR, expected in Q4 2025. ESMA released new Q&As...more

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Irish Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Report: Asset Management and Investment Funds October - December 2024

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Welcome to the October - December 2024 issue of our Irish Quarterly Legal and Regulatory Developments report for asset management and investment funds....more

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The EU Consults on Operating Conditions for Open-Ended Loan Origination Funds

The EU has issued its consultation on Regulatory Technical Standards for open-ended loan-originating AIFs operating under AIFMD II. As previously flagged, the default position under AIFMD II is that Loan Originating...more

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Department of Finance public consultation on exercise of AIFMD II national discretions

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On 22 November 2024, the Department of Finance ("DoF") launched its public consultation on the exercise of the national discretions in Directive (EU) 2024/927 amending AIFMD (2011/61/EU) and the UCITS Directive (2009/65/EC),...more

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Great Fund Insights: ELTIF Regulation: consolidated text including ELTIF 2.0

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The ELTIF-RTS, the final piece of the puzzle for the ELTIF framework, have been published in the Official Journal on October 25, 2024 and entered into force on October 26, 2024. This marks the end of a long and complex...more

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Delegated Regulation on Regulatory Technical Standards under Revised European Long-Term Investment Funds Regulation Published in...

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Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/2759 supplementing the European Long-Term Investment Funds Regulation with regard to certain regulatory technical standards was published in the Official Journal of the European...more

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Liquidity Management Under AIFMD2: RTS for Open-Ended Funds

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In our recent alert Loan Origination Under AIFMD2: A Guide, on loan origination under the revised Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD2), we noted that the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)...more

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